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WEAKLEY'S FLORA (10/20/20):
Convolvulus species 2 [=appalachianus]
FAMILY
Convolvulaceae
Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
The former Calystegia sepium has now been split out into several species, not to mention all now in the genus Convolvulus. Read more at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Calystegia sepium ssp. appalachiana
FAMILY
Convolvulaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America
Calystegia sepium ssp. appalachiana
INCLUDED WITHIN
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 158-06-002:
Calystegia sepium
FAMILY
Convolvulaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Convolvulus sepium var. sepium
COMMON NAME:
Appalachian Bindweed
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JK Marlow jkm060506_047
May Oconee County SC
Clemson Forest
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JK Marlow jkm060506_047b
May Oconee County SC
Clemson Forest
Flowers solitary, funnel-shaped, with 5 shallow lobes, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians.
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JK Marlow jkm090726_065
July Buncombe County NC
Blue Ridge Parkway
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JK Marlow jkm090726_075
July Buncombe County NC
Blue Ridge Parkway
Stems trailing or twining, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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JK Marlow jkm090726_078
July Buncombe County NC
Blue Ridge Parkway
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JK Marlow jkm090726_087
July Buncombe County NC
Blue Ridge Parkway
Here ssp. appalachiana has strongly keeled bracts with overlapping bases, per Bindweeds of Alabama and adjacent states (Spaulding, 2013).
COMPARE
sepals and bracts of Bindweed and Morning Glory
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JK Marlow jkm090726_091
July Buncombe County NC
Blue Ridge Parkway
Basal leaf lobes of ssp. appalachiana often with 2-3 acute angles, per Bindweeds of Alabama and adjacent states (Spaulding, 2013).
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (10/20/20):
Convolvulus species 2 [=appalachianus]
FAMILY
Convolvulaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Calystegia sepium ssp. appalachiana
FAMILY
Convolvulaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America
Calystegia sepium ssp. appalachiana
INCLUDED WITHIN
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 158-06-002:
Calystegia sepium
FAMILY
Convolvulaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Convolvulus sepium var. sepium
238
Herbaceous vine
Perennial
Native to North Carolina
Documented growing wild in - NC -
Common in Mountains, rare elsewhere
Look for it in woodland edges, per Weakley's Flora
Click here to see a more detailed map from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium,
or click here to see a map from SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
...Variable
LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate
FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
Pale pink
5-merous or rarely 4-merous
5 sepals
Shallowly 5-lobed (or merely wavy-edged) campanulate to funnelform corolla
5 stamens
Superior ovary
Flowers solitary in leaf axils
FRUIT:
Spring/Summer
Capsule
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC p384
- Newcomb's Wildflower Guide p324?
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States p072
- Wildflowers in the Field and Forest p270
- Wild Flowers of NC, 2nd edition p206
- Wildflowers of Tennessee p199
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians p236
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains p130